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COPAA urges the Ninth Circuit to affirm the decision of the federal court
COPAA filed an amicus brief in the 9th Circuit in SPB. v. Washoe County School District The brief urges the court to affirm the decision of the United States District Court. The amicus brief is here. COPAA Amicus Committee Co-chairs Ellen M. Saideman and COPAA Legal...
Senator Hirono Hosts Forum to Highlight Harms of the Federal Education Tax Credit
On Tuesday afternoon, Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) hosted a K-12 Education Spotlight Forum titled, Raising the Alarm: How the National School Voucher Program Will Be Harmful to Students. Panelists discussed the pending impacts of the federal education tax credit which...
Senator Murphy Reintroduces Bill to Protect Students from Physical Abuse, End Dangerous Corporal Punishment Practices in Schools
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) has reintroduced the Protecting Our Students in Schools Act, alongside Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.). The bill would ban corporal punishment for any school that receives federal funding, as...
Coalition Issues Evidence-Based Practices Brief, Condemns ED Guidance on Discipline
The Federal School Discipline and Climate Coalition (FedSDC) released What Does and Doesn’t Work: Myths and Facts About School Discipline and Disproportionality to support schools in their efforts to use evidence-based practices. A press advisory issued alongside the...
Senators Request Reinstatement of Vocational Education and Civil Rights Guidelines
In a letter dated Thursday, September 3rd, senators asked the Secretary of Education to reinstate guidelines the Department rescinded by final rule on July 23rd. The 1979 Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of Race, Color,...
Fourteen State Attorneys General Issue Antidiscrimination Guidance
The attorneys general of Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, California, Delaware, Hawaiʻi, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington have issued multistate guidance on protecting against discrimination by upholding state and...
Why Access to Special Education Depends Too Much on Parents
The 74 (OPINION) As a parent of children with learning disabilities, a researcher studying family-school partnerships, and a board member of the National Center for Learning Disabilities, I’ve spent a lot of time listening to families describe their experiences...
Parents of students with disabilities find private school vouchers come with a catch
The Hechinger Report The meeting with staff members of Cincinnati Christian Schools began with a prayer. Then they told Mike Grimmer and Linda Kelly that their granddaughter could no longer attend the private school. Annabelle Kelly had enrolled there three months...
GA: GA school districts spend hundreds of thousands fighting special education parents in court
WRDR Georgia school districts are spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on legal battles to fight parents of disabled children over special education evaluations. District records, uncovered by Atlanta News First Investigates, reveal proceedings have more...
NY: Thousands of NYC students with disabilities may not have school buses at beginning of year, nonprofit says
CBS New York New York City public schools will open their doors to students Thursday to begin a new academic year, but thousands of students with special needs and their families are questioning how they're going to get there. According to the organization Advocates...
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